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What does missa mean?

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  1. (music) a mass, in the sense of a composition setting several sung parts of the liturgical service (most often chosen from the ordinary parts Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Agnus Dei and/or Sanctus) to music, notably when the text in Latin is used (as long universally prescribed by Rome)
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The term missa has come to imply a 'mission', because at the end of the Mass the congregation are sent out to serve Christ.
At first it was to have been a missa brevis, but the rest was added later.
Look at the failures of conductors and orchestras and choruses to perform the Missa Solemnis.
How much sovereign you goin' to give Peter and missa Burrowes?
As shown above, Bach combined the Kyrie and Gloria into the Missa, according to the common practice of that time.
Each day is a festival unto them, who diligently heed the claustral proverb, De missa ad mensam.

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